Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Slanted: How an Asian American Troublemaker Took on the Supreme Court"Racist. Hero. Stubborn. Fighter. Chink. I've been called many things on the way to this moment, but ironically, I've never been called 'a slant.'"When Simon Tam started an Asian American dance rock band called The Slants, he didn't realize that he was starting an...
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Heart of the Storm: My Adventures as a Helicopter Rescue Pilot and CommanderAdvance praise for Heart of the Storm Col. Ed Fleming tells a story of true heroism about the constant dangers faced by the pilots and crews who fly the most versatile-and vulnerable-aircraft in the skies today.-John Glenn, former U.S. senator, astronaut, and bestselling author...
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The Grape PickerThe story with the title The Grape Picker was the main reason that I wrote this book. It is the story of an accidental trauma of a small child, misdiagnosed as child abuse.Witnessing the painful experience that the child's parents had to go through...
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Bernard of Clairvaux: An Inner LifeIn this intimate portrait of one of the Middle Ages' most consequential men, Brian Patrick McGuire delves into the life of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux to offer a refreshing interpretation that finds within this grand historical figure a deeply spiritual human being who longed...
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Lost Island: Plus three stories and an afterwordLOST ISLAND was Barbara Follett's third and last novel. It tells the story of Jane Carey, a young woman from Maine whose character and philosophy bear a striking similarity to her creator's.A lover of woods and mountains, Jane finds herself working in a dusty...
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The Ballad of Tommy LiPumaCaptures seven hit-making decades during the American recording industry's glittering, freewheeling years.Tommy LiPuma was one of America's most successful record producers whose work with seminal artists like Miles Davis, Diana Krall, Barbra Streisand, Rickie Lee Jones, George Benson, and Willie Nelson went on to...
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Artistic Expressions of Transgender YouthThere are plenty of books in existence about transgender youth. There are a lot of good people, trying to give good information, and for the most part they are. But you might be asking yourself what makes this book different than the others. This...
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Tree BeingsWinner: The Wilderness Society's Environment Award for Children's Literature We depend on trees for our survival, yet few of us understand just how fascinating these beings really are. With a foreword by the world-renowned anthropologist Jane Goodall, Tree Beings is an adventure through the...
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Reaching Mithymna: Among the Volunteers and Refugees on LesvosFINALIST FOR THE 2020 HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION - A New York Times New & Noteworthy Book - A CBC Best Nonfiction Book of 2020 - A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book for 2020 "Combining his poetic sensibilities and storytelling...
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Shepherd's Journal - Blank Pages: Blank NotebookIf you are looking for the lost city of Atlantis than you need to take down a lot of notes and this handy Shepherd's Journal has just the right amount of blank lined pages to jot down everything and anything you need and you...
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The Science and Technology of Ben FranklinThis STEM-based science biography explores Benjamin Franklin's lifetime of boundless curiosity and encourages kids to imagine what they can do as inventors and scientists through hands-on projects! Inventor. Scientist. Diplomat. Printer. Benjamin Franklin was a very curious person, which led to lots of different...
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Women Winemakers: Personal OdysseysOur goal in writing this book is to make lead women winemakers more visible. We believe that knowing their names, their rich stories, and their varied career pathways helps challenge and change the traditional societal view that women do not have a leading role...
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Troubled: The Failed Promise of America's Behavioral Treatment ProgramsAn award-winning journalist's breathtaking mosaic of the tough-love industry and the young adults it inevitably fails.In the middle of the night, they are vanished.Each year thousands of young adults deemed out of control--suffering from depression, addiction, anxiety, and rage--are carted off against their will...
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Atticus Finch: The BiographyWho was the real Atticus Finch? A prize-winning historian reveals the man behind the legend The publication of Go Set a Watchman in 2015 forever changed how we think about Atticus Finch. Once seen as a paragon of decency, he was reduced to a...
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Self-Portrait in Black and White: Family, Fatherhood, and Rethinking RaceThe son of a "black" father and a "white" mother, Thomas Chatterton Williams found himself questioning long-held convictions about race upon the birth of his blond-haired, blue-eyed daughter--and came to realize that these categories cannot adequately capture either of them, or anyone else. In...
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Behind Enemy Lines: The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi GermanyT]he amazing story of a woman who lived through one of the worst times in human history, losing family members to the Nazis but surviving with her spirit and integrity intact." --Publishers Weekly Marthe Cohn was a young Jewish woman living just across the...
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Buried -- Updated EditionAn unparalleled memoir that grapples with the complex relationships that exist within the mountaineering community and how personal choices can have deep and tragic consequences. On January 20, 2003, at 10:45 a.m., a massive avalanche released from Tumbledown Mountain in the Selkirk Range of...
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Mary Seacole: Bound for the BattlefieldThe life of pioneering Jamaican nurse Mary Seacole gets its dramatic due in a sweeping and stunning biography. Mary Seacole spent much of her life on the front lines of the Crimean War, ministering to the wounded, caring for soldiers, and making her mark...
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Ella Fitzgerald: A Biography of the First Lady of Jazz, Updated EditionStuart Nicholson's biography of Ella Fitzgerald is considered a classic in jazz literature. Drawing on original documents, interviews, and new information, Nicholson draws a complete picture of Fitzgerald's professional and personal life. Fitzgerald rose from being a pop singer with chart-novelty hits in the...
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Notes from ChildhoodA series of luminous vignettes describe the childhood of Argentina's rediscovered modernist writer. Self-contained, interconnected fragments begin with her family's departure to Mendoza in 1910 and end with their return to Buenos Aires and the death of her father in 1915. Lange's notes tell...
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